dromond

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Nautical A large medieval sailing galley.

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n. Alternative form of dromon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.

Etymologies

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman dromund, from Late Latin dromō, dromōn-, a kind of ship, from Late Greek dromōn, from Greek dromos, race.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

The two queens (if I may call them so, of whom one had been and one hoped to be of that estate), Joan and Berengère, went in a great ship which they call a dromond, a heavy-timbered ship carrying a crowd of sail.